Month: 2012/07
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2012 July 30
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Did you look under the couch?
Earth had been a great home to us. But, the Sun was revving up to devour the inner planets, so we figured it was about time we pack the whole place up and archive it. No danger to the human species: We’d scattered ourselves across the galactic plane. There was no getting rid of us now, short of obliterating the whole Milky Way. [ ... 173 words ... ]
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2012 July 25
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Aerostats, Base Stations, and the Cloud
In my thinking about things IndieWeb and user-supported cloud infrastructure, I’ve had a couple of notions bouncing around in my head that might help clarify some “products” I’d like to build if and when I have time. I guess this would be good to blog about, so maybe someone else can steal my ideas (if they’re any good). Because, after all, much of this is sourced from material I’ve stolen from guys like Dave Winer. [ ... 870 words ... ]
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2012 July 19
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In praise of dumb pipes – or, ISPs: please don’t get smart with me!
Something I’m having trouble finding these days is a dumb pipe. I just want a dumb pipe to the internet going to my house, and to the computer in my pocket. Let me give you money for bandwidth, and then butt out. [ ... 711 words ... ]
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2012 July 12
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2012 July 11
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Mercury must be in retrograde
It’s shaping up to be this kind of day. [ ... 185 words ... ]
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2012 July 10
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Note to self File a bug to get…
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How webdev is like space exploration
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How webdev has been getting better
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2012 July 03
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Biospheric Xenophobia
“Have you ever seen one of them?” [ ... 193 words ... ]